William Peters (lawyer)

William Peters (1702-1786) was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer during the colonial and revolutionary eras.

Biography
William Peters was born in Liverpool, England, and he emigrated to the Thirteen Colonies in 1739. He worked as a lawyer before serving as a judge of the courts of common pleas, quarter sessions, and orphans' court, and he sided with the Patriots during the American Revolutionary War. He died in 1786, and his son Richard Peters would go on to become a federal judge.